Photo and bio of J. M. Burrus, a candidate for lieutenant governor of Missouri and employee of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, born near Blue Springs, Missouri in 1845, involved in the Civil War,...

Photo and bio of Charles Maiden, "candidate for County Marshal" in Jackson County and "engineer on the Frisco Lines" residing at 3838 East 60th Street in Kansas City. Born in Iowa in 1863 and coming to...

Photo and bio of Eugene Hamilton, "the candidate for Judge of the Circuit Court, Independence Division," born in Saint Louis about 1879 and becoming a teacher and superintendent of public schools in Liberty,...

Photo and bio of John Wilson White, or John White, "candidate for State Senator, in the Fifth District" of Missouri. Born in Ohio in 1856 and moving to Johnson County, Kansas about 1881 as a teacher at...

Photos and bios of Louis Knoche and Raymond Barnett, candidates for government offices in Kansas City in 1912. Description of Knoche, born in Kansas City in 1877 and becoming a bank president and farmer...

Unnumbered chapter of the book about steamboating during "Westport's golden age of the Santa Fe Trail," from the first, the "John Hancock," in 1832, to the 1860s, listing and describing several steamboats....

Description of the origins and early history of the town of Westport, Missouri as an embarkation or jumping-off point for western travels including the Santa Fe Trail especially in the 1820s-1850s, with...